Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have little in common outside the TV studio, aside from their reported $1 million salaries from TV alone. Ebert, a bachelor, lives in a three-story Victorian house (where he keeps the curtains drawn to protect his collection of watercolors), teaches a film course at the University of Chicago, and once wrote scripts for Erotic-Film Producer Russ Meyer. Siskel lives with his wife and two children in a fashionable ten-room co-op and is such a fan of Saturday Night Fever that at a celebrity auction he bought the % white suit John Travolta wore in the film. They...
...writers who have suffered physical and mental pain under the Soviet system while Yevtushenko flourished. But that is an old, sad story of envies, misunderstandings and compromises that the author does not confront. Rather he defends his style on the justifiable grounds that poetry springs from rude experience and common speech...
...your common portrait...
...rules: it is the first to be covered from the start by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. Yet to a large degree it is the very ideology of the President and his Administration that seems to encourage a climate of abuse. Reagan appointees have tended to share a common philosophy about government: less is better, none is best. Many appear to have come to Washington with an innate disrespect for its institutions and a disregard for the rules that govern them...
What do a 7-ft., 6-in Dinka tribesman-turned-NBA shot blocker, a 5-ft., 7-in. ACC freak show-turned-NBA slam dunk champion, and an academic All-America sociology major from Harvard have in common...